San Francisco startup achieves digital fly brain with simulated body
Eon Systems, a startup from San Francisco, has announced a breakthrough in digital immortality by creating the world's first full digital emulation of a fly’s brain connected to a physically simulated body. They digitized all 125,000 neurons and 50 million synapses, replicating an accurate model of the nervous system, then placed this model in a virtual environment. The digital brain independently controlled the virtual body, performing purposeful movements such as walking and washing without any lines of code prescribing specific actions.
Currently, the insect’s brain operates inside the simulation, still “believing” it has a body while managing it in the virtual space. The researchers’ next goals are to emulate a mouse brain, followed by a human brain in the future.
This breakthrough paves the way for new insights into consciousness studies and digital immortality, potentially transforming brain modeling and artificial intelligence development.
